# Legal Counsel (UK)

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Legal Counsel to join our team in London. As a global technology company, Wise is on a mission to make international payments easier and more affordable for individuals and businesses.

This is a high-impact commercial legal role supporting the Wise Platform business that powers international payments for banks, financial institutions, and enterprise partners around the world. Your mission will be to enable, protect, and empower Wise Platform, providing first-rate commercial legal advice while improving and applying processes, templates, and ways of working that let Legal scale in a rapidly-growing, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

- Part of the core team of lawyers owning all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms, and enterprise customers;

- Building and embedding a process as well as establishing clear guardrails and expectations for when and how Legal engages;

- Applying a prioritisation framework to allocate legal resource appropriately;

- Owning template and playbook management, including annual reviews and clear communication on template updates;

- Driving effective communication and change management;

- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements across a wide range of legal matters and ad hoc issues, including financial regulation, payments, banking, and partnerships;

- Working closely with Product, Product Compliance, and Pricing to ensure agreements reflect approved positions;

- Identifying and implementing tooling and technology solutions that streamline workflows and increase scalability;

- Understanding the real risks to the business and advising on the operational impact and practicalities of those risks;

- Mentoring and upskilling other members of the Legal team and the wider business.

Qualifications:

- Qualified lawyer in England and Wales (or another common law jurisdiction), with strong post-qualification commercial experience;

- 4-6 years of PQE experience;

- Strong background as a commercial lawyer with substantial B2B experience, ideally in payments, financial services, technology, or platform/partnership businesses;

- Experience leading change management, designing and embedding processes, guardrails, templates, and playbooks;

- Proven aptitude for commercial drafting, structuring, and negotiation;

- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, prioritising and working independently under tight deadlines across multiple deals;

- Strong stakeholder-influencing skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across key business partners and senior leadership.

What we offer:

- Stock options as part of compensation package;

- Flexible working arrangements;

- Wellbeing support, including Employee Assistance Program;

- 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave.

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## Skills

### Required
- commercial law
- contract lifecycle management
- change management
- process design
- template management
- agreement drafting
- financial regulation
- payments
- banking
- partnerships

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